The Influence of Media Violence on the Aggressive Behavior of the Youth
媒体暴力队青少年攻击行为的影响分析
现代社会，媒体已经成为人们生活中必不可少的一部分，人们已经逐渐意识到，媒体的暴力内容对青少年的成长和发展，有着很大的威胁。通过对暴力的电影电视和游戏的调查发现，对青少年的影响非常深刻。
When the media has been a necessary part in our life, people have gradually realized the violence content has become a big threat to the youth’s social development. Research on violent television and films, video games, and music reveals unequivocal evidence that media violence increases the likelihood of aggressive and violent behavior in both immediate and long-term contexts(Anderson, 2003). Here the influence of media violence on the aggressive behavior of the youth will be analyzed, and then the controling methods will be proposed aiming at the youth’s psychological development characteristics.
在最近十年中，媒体发展的非常快，媒体促进了信息社会的快速发展，但是媒体已经商业化，为了利益，难免会有一些违法和不良的信息。
During the last decade, the media has been developing faster and faster. The development of media has promoted information transfer and social development. But the operation of media basically aims at commercial benefit, so it inevitably has a lot of illegal and harmful information，especially including the violent and antagonism factors, which appear frequently. It is researched that influenced by media violence the youth possibly become “immune” to violence and unmoved in the violent scence. And they gradually think violence is one of the means to solving problems. They will immitate the ways of violence from the media, and recognize some character, which may be the victim or the aggressor. The current study builds upon previous research in a sample of 302 (52.3% female) mostly Hispanic youth. Results indicated that current levels of depressive symptoms were a strong predictor of serious aggression and violence across most outcome measures(Ferguson, 2011).
媒体暴力表现在语言和行为两个方面，
Media violence means the violence of language or behavior which appears in media. Since the 30s of the 21th century, reseachers mainly from America have made large scales of research on media violence for many times. Gerbner, G（1980），an American communications theorist defines violence as “a blatant force performance of intentional harm or killing”. This is comparably a strict defination, not including pshological violence, oral threat, financial violence and so on.
攻击行为是一种在人类社会和动物界普遍存在的现象，青少年的攻击行为主要表现在三个方面，语言攻击 人身攻击和财产攻击。
Aggressive behavior is a kind of phenomenon commonly existing in the human society and the animal world. It can refer to any behavior of hurting others. The aggressive behavior of the youth is mainly reflected from three aspects. One is language aggression, another is body aggression, and the other is the damage of people’s properties.
大量的研究表明，青少年的攻击行为受社会的影响非常严重。青少年的身心健康，也非常重要。
Since the middle of the 20th century, a great amount of research has been made on the relationship between media violence and the behavior of the youth. The result indicates that the youth’s body and mental health will be badly and seriously influenced if they stay in a violent environment for a long time. The bad influence contains aggressive way of thinking, anti-society sense of value, hostility and hostile acts to others, fear and depression, and sleep disorder. Moreover, it shows from the trend of junenile delinquency that the criminals often immitate the means of crime or the ways of orgnization from all kinds of media.
大量研究表明，媒体的暴力队青少年的攻击行为影响很大，媒体暴力可以短时间内激发青少年的攻击行为，提高攻击的情绪。看过暴力电影后，青少年的语言和肢体都会变的更加暴力。
A great amout of evidences prove that the influence of media violence on the aggressive behavior of the youth cannot be contempted. Media violence will cause the wakeness of aggression in a short time, improve aggressive recoginition and mood. It is found after the investigation of watching non-violent and violent story movies constantly for four days that the behavior after watching the violence is more aggressive, no matter enraged over or not. For the youth, the more they contact violence from the media, the more they become aggressive. That’s because they can learn all kinds of ways of aggression and memorize the strategies. Besides, after too much contact of media violence, the youth begin to believe in the validity of violence, and consider that aggression is a proper strategy of a hero. Media violence decreases the youth’s sensibility, and reduces their sympathy.
